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Posts about movies and television shows centering around martial arts, boxing or wrestling.
Recentemente, descobri um clipe de três minutos no YouTube, que incluiu dois de Jim Londons’ jogos da década de 1930. na primeira partida, Londos luta contra Abe Coleman. na segunda partida, Londos luta uma luta de estilos mistos com Oki Shikina, que foi treinado por Taro Miyake, o faixa preta de judô e lutador profissional. Londons foi a maior estrela de bilheteria
Em novembro 18, 1938, ex-campeão mundial de luta livre Jim Londos lutou contra o atual campeão mundial Bronko Nagurski, o grande ex-jogador de futebol do Chicago Bears. Os homens lutaram na Filadélfia, Pensilvânia para a versão de Nagurski do campeonato mundial de luta livre. Você pode ver a partida de 14 minutos na íntegra no YouTube. Quando vi a partida pela primeira vez, several
At nearly 70 anos de idade, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Billed as Gregorious, a retired wrestler and the father of London’s wrestling promoter, Zbyszko displayed his wrestling skills, even at his advanced age, in the film’s signature scene. The movie begins with a man chasing Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking
Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Tragicamente, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match
Empresas de radiodifusão fossem à procura de conteúdo durante os primeiros dias da televisão. Além de filmes mais antigos e algumas produções da empresa de radiodifusão, esportes eram uma fonte de programação para muitas estações de televisão. The Dumont Television Network was one of the powerhouse networks in the beginning of the Golden Age of Television. One of their most popular programs was wrestling and the star
Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) em abril 17, 1942. Zasu Pitts stars as Aunt Emma Bates. In her youth, Aunt Emma was engaged to up-and-coming professional fighter Jim O’Banion. Her sister didn’t approve of the match, so they sent her on a trip to break up the couple. Aunt Emma regretted it and starts following the career
On July 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Movimento “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation finds Mr. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Mr. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, intends
Marvel Studios released the series Iron Fist on Netflix on March 17, 2017. The series based on the Marvel comic about Danny Rand, a young man presumed to have died in a plane crash. Rand is rescued as a child by monks, who teach him martial arts in the Himalayas. The series contains a number of great martial arts fight scenes.
Em abril de 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox released the seventh of eight Mr. Movimento “B” filmes. Mr. Moto in Danger Island begins with Mr. Moto on a ship headed to Puerto Rico. Mr. Movimento, played by Peter Lorre, and several passengers are watching a wrestling match. Twister McGurk, played by Warren Hymer, is wrestling Sailor Sam, played by Ward Bond. Mr. Movimento
In the sixth of eight Mr. Moto films released between 1937 e 1939, Interpol police officer Kentaro Moto pursues a group of international saboteurs. Twentieth Century – Fox Film Corporation released Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939) (link de afiliado) on January 20, 1939. Peter Lorre returns as the cerebral but deadly Mr. Movimento. Ricardo Cortez plays Fabian the Great, a ventriloquist,